2012 - 2017 Travel Map - Now in East Glacier Park MT

The
last few days I have had a cold, really sucks!
Seems it is finally going away now.
We really haven’t done much except just relax. We did get laundry done on Wednesday which
was the first since we left the north.
Thursday we went out and got wine and found King Crab Legs on sale for
$16 a pound! We bought 2 pounds of the
legs and ate them on Friday night.
Friday we went to Wal-Mart to try and get after season Christmas lights
with no luck. We did however get three
16 foot blue rope lights. We put them up
on Friday afternoon with a timer so they come on and go off automatically. They look really warm and inviting at night.

Our Chinese rose is doing real well.At last count it had 12 blooms on it with 4 in full color now.Up north we have only had maybe 2 full blooms a year.

This frog appeared on a window near the hot tub Saturday night. First time we have seen on of these in the wild.

Next
event is the New Year’s Eve Party here at the RV park.

I
have been thinking that I would figure out just what we have done since full
time RVing for the end of the year. Just
finished that and I am thinking that I will do a summary of our year in 2013 as
we have done a lot!

Monday -
Tuesday December 24-25, 2012

Christmas
Eve for us was mostly about the park party in the evening. The day was a very nice 80 degrees and with
just a few clouds. We baked in the sun
for a bit and then took a short nap before the party.The
party was put on by the French Canadian crowd here. We believe everyone in the park was invited
so we got to meet everyone who is here now.
More people will show up in the next couple of weeks. Anyway, I would guess that there are about 70
people here now with 50 of those being French and the remaining English
speaking. As one would imagine, the
English speaking gathered together for dinner.The
main dinner item was a whole chicken for each couple; singles got a half
chicken. These chickens were huge,
enough to feed 4-5 people. So, one
person of each couple got in line for the chicken which was split for you when
it was your turn. You then take the bird
back to your table and both of us carve off what we wanted. The sides were on a separate table with its
own line. Each of us brought our own place
settings. We had wine as usual which we
needed to purchase from the bar. A
bottle of wine was just $14 so it was very reasonable. Overall the meal and company were excellent.

The Christmas Eve party around the pool.

Hot tub at the park.

After
dinner most of the French danced and socialized to live French music. We, on the other hand, went to the hot tub
and also talked with many groups of people as we usually do. As with most places, people of like minds
tend to group together which is especiallytrue with 2 languages. In the process, we managed to polish off a second bottle of
wine and by around 11 were back in our RV.Christmas
was mostly just doing our usual morning routine of internet and coffee. This morning though we slept in until 8:30. We also watched some of the Disney Christmas
parades on TV. I also took it upon
myself to program the universal remote control. We have a really good remote that we got a few years ago that we took
with us to the RV. However I just
never felt like programming it after we started traveling. Well, after stopping here in Florida, I
finally figured out how all of the entertainment equipment works. We had surround sound but didn't investigate how to
turn it on and mostly we didn't care either.
But now it was time to figure that out and I did that a few days ago. This now means that we need 3 remote controls
(Sat/DVR, TV, DVD/Audio) to watch TV! Time to program the single remote! It
took me about 3 hours to program the remote to handle all of the devices
but, it is all done now. It really isn't hard
to do the programming, it just takes time and focus to figure out just how you
want the remote to work for you. We
went to the pool in the afternoon for awhile for more sun. After, we stopped by a new friend’s (Bruce)
RV, a 69 Gulfstream which he is restoring. He invited us to a Christmas dinner and get
together he was doing later in the evening. He was in
the middle of cooking a turkey and vegetables as well as other ethnic food from
Newfoundland where he is from. He
makes his own wine and beer so we had some of his wine and talked for a bit. It was very good wine!

Monkey Island just behind our RV. There are no more monkeys on the island. The last one, Chip, was taken off in 2006.

A very ugly snapping turtle in the water around monkey island.

We
went back to Bruce’s later that evening and had dinner with a group of new
friends. Most are here for just the season
as we are, but some are full time residents here. After dark we lit a fire and one of the guys,
Dan, played a guitar and sang. Patty got
her guitar and played and sang some too.
It was great night!

Dan playing and singing Christmas night.

Tomorrow
we need to do laundry. Hopefully we can
get a water volleyball game going in the afternoon.Stay
tuned!